How To Build The Best Cheap Garden Hoop House
A hoop house for your garden beds is a versatile tool you can use all year round. It can be used with greenhouse plastic, mesh netting, or shade cloth depending on the time of year you are gardening in. This DIY guide will show you step by step how to put one of these together.
Cost: $88
Equipment
- 1 Saw (anything to cut PVC)
- 1 Drill
Materials
- 4 piece 10 foot 1/2 inch PVC pipe
- 1 piece 10x20 foot mesh netting
- 16 piece 1/2 inch PVC conduit clamp
- 32 piece 1 1/4 inch deck screws
- 12 piece 1/2 inch PVC clamp
Instructions
- Attach each of the PVC pipes every 4 feet on each side of the garden bed. To attach the pipe to the garden bed use 2 PVC conduit clamps on each side. Using 2 clamps on each side give extra stability to the keep the PVC pipe upright easier.
- Once you have all of the PVC pipes connected your raised bed should look like this.
- Cover Hoop House With Mesh Netting
- Once you have the mesh netting in place, use PVC clamps to connect the netting to the pipe. These clamps easily slide over the pipe and have a strong enough connection they won’t just fall off.
- At the two end of the hoop house, to hold the netting in place, I used some large rocks to simply hold the netting to the ground.
- To access the garden i remove the rock from one side and remove the lowest clips along the side I want access to. I then use the clips to hold the netting up at the top of the hoop so it’s not falling down while I’m trying to work.
